Design Consultant Conveyer With Low Pay - Design Consultant Hillarys Blinds Employee Review

I was selling shutters and blinds. I'm sure everyone who's prepared to pay will pass the interview. They want your money. Most colleagues are over 50 everyone takes a chance and pays £2400 to join hoping for an easier life. It is not. My conversion rate and appointment effect was fairly high with long hours but I was subsidising my wage to live. Eventually just like everyone else on my initial training course, I left. I never met anyone earning a lot of money. They cut the rate of commission by 20% for new consultants only but don't tell you that. I drove between 2 and 4 hours a day, in all weathers. Some days over 12 hours long, I often worked 60 hours a week without two consecutive days off. So increased chance of accident. You have to work one day at the weekend and two evenings. You have lots of bags of very heavy samples they will not all fit in a BMW 5 series Estate boot. So some on the back seat. You have to carry them up streets and stairs of blocks of flats sometimes at night sometimes in very deprived areas. You are self employed so you have to pay for your own car and associated costs, running up the mileage. I've already renewed the tyres. Zero promotions. No pension, no expenses, pay for your own fuel, pay for hotels on constant training courses, pay for your own tablet and phone, pay for your own uniforms, pay for two phone contracts, ones for the tablet. No holiday pay, no workers rights. They make switch your location on the tablet so they can track you. Very hard sell, enormous amount of competition. We were always the most expensive usually from the same factory in China. Hillarys have often trained and supplied the competition. If your still thinking of this after reading the above, make sure you ask your interviewer for telephone numbers of two existing consultants in your area on the same comission rate that you will be on, you won't get them. Commission rates are fixed. They train new people all the time and then readvertise the position when they leave and so on. I'm embarrassed that I fell for it. You are just a self employed comission only sales person. No work life balance.